Wall-papering machine



S. PYTLAK.

WALL PAPERING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 21, 1921.

Patented Nov. 1,1921.

y M j a V M K 5 STAN LY PYTLAK A TTORNEY.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

STANLY PYTLAK, 0F MoMECI-IEN, WEST VIRGINIA.

WALL-PAPERING MACHINE.

Application filed May 21,

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, STANLY PYTLAK, citizen of Poland, residing at McMechen, in the county of Marshall and State of Vest Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in l/Vall-Papering Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a machine for applying wall paper and it has for a general object to facilitate the work of papering walls.

More specifically speaking the invention has for an object to provide a simple form of machine for this purpose by the use of which the paper can have the paste placed thereon and be applied to the wall at a single operation.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects and advantages thereof, reference will be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, and to the appended claims in which the various novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

Figure l of the drawings is a perspective view of a wall papering machine constructed according to the invention.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal elevation thereof with the compartment which contains the paste brush thrown back.

Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2, but showing the paste brush holder in closed, or operative, position.

. Fig. 4 is a fragmentary transverse section on the line H of Fig. 2 with the paste brush holder in closed position.

Fig. 5 is a diagrammatic end view showing the device in working position.

In constructing my improved casing 1 provide a cylinder 10 which forms a casing to contain a roll of wall paper, a mandrel 11 extending through the casing and being supported at opposite ends in-the heads of the cylinder. One of the heads of the cylinder is made removable in any well known manner for insertion of the roll of paper, while the mandrel may be formed to present at one end a square socket 11 adapted to receive the squared end of a crank handle. Extending longitudinally along one side of the cylinder 10 is a slot 12 through which the paper is assed.

inged as at 13 to the cylinder 10 is a brush holder 14 adapted to contain a rotary brush 15 by which the paste is applied to the paper as it issues through the slot 12. This Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 1, 1921.

1921. Serial NO. 471,405.

holder is in the form of a casing of approximately the same size and shape as the cylinder 10 but having one side flattened as shown, this flattened side being in the form of a sliding gate or door 16 engaged at its edges by suitable guide elements 17 on the casing body. When the machine is in use this door is removed.

hen in operative position the casing 14 is disposed with its flat side in engagement with the side of a box 18 which is of rectangular shape in cross section and extends along and is rigidly attached to the cylinder 10, having one wall 18 extending in alinement with the slot 12. This box 18 acts as a paste reservoir from which the paste may be supplied to the brush holder, the paper passing along adjacent the wall 18 of the box 18 as it issues from the cylinder, this wall forming an abutment for the paper while the paste is being applied by brush 15.

The paste is delivered from box 18 into the brush holder through a pair of apertures 19 in opposite ends of the walls 18, sliding gate 20 being suitably mounted in the said wall to close these apertures when desired. A pair of latch devices, here comprising hinged spring arms 22 on the brush holder 14-, engaging under hooks 23 on the box 18, are providedtto retain the brush holder in its operative position. A gate or door 24, similar to the door 16 may be provided in the box 18 for filling purposes.

The brush 15 is adapted to be driven from mandrel 11 and to this end the shaft 25 on which the brush is mounted has fixed thereon a gear 26 meshing with a small idler 27 which meshes in turn with a gear 28 fixed to the mandrel 11. These gears are accommodated in separate compartments 29 and 30 formed in the end of the cylinder 10 and brush holder 14, the idler 27 being carried by the brush holder, as indicated in Fig. 2.

Fixed to and projecting from the opposite side of the box 18 to that engaged by the brush holder 14: are a pair of arms 32 which are inclined diagonally with respect to the box 18 and which have a rotary brush 33 mounted on their outer ends, this brush being adapted to bear on paper and press it on the wall. Fixed to the brush holder 14L are a pair of runner members 35 which are in the form of metal straps spaced from the brush holder and having inturned ends secured to the latter.

In the use of the device the roll of paper is placed in the cylinder 10 and the box 18 filled with paste, the brush holder being first swung back. The paper is then led through the slot 12 in the cylinder 10 and across the face 18 of the box 18. The brush holder is then swung to operative position and the latch arms 22 engaged with the hooks 23. The door 16 and the gates 20 are then opened, the paste flowing through openings 19 into the brush holder and spreading along the bottom thereof so as to be engaged by brush 15. The paper, indicated at P in Figs. 1, 4: and 5, is led over the brush 33, and the device applied to the wall, indicated at W, in the manner shown in Fig. 5, the brush 33 hearing on the paper, while the runners bear on the wall in advance of the paper, the whole device being moved downwardly along the wall by hand, I the paper being drawn from the cylinder 10,

as will be apparent. The gears 26, 27 and 28 act to rotate brush 15, causing the paste to be applied to the paper as it Jasses across the face 18 of the box; 18. he mandrel 11 may be rotated by hand during this movement, by means of. a crank fixed thereto, to take the strain off the paper.

Having thus described my lnvention what I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent of the United States is as follows:

1. A wall papering machine comprising a '1 cylinder adapted to hold a roll of paper, a

mandrel in said cylinder, a brush holder in the form of a casing hinged to said cylinder, a rotary brush in said holder, a paste box presenting a fiat face across which the paper is adapted to pass, said brush holder presenting an open side registering with said flat face, said paste box having openings therein for the discharge of paste into the said brush holder.

2. A wall papering machine comprising a cylinder adapted to hold a roll of paper, a mandrel in said cylinder, a brush holder in the form of a casing hinged to said cylinder, a rotary brush in said holder, a paste box presenting a flat face across Which'the paper is adapted to pass, said brush holder presenting an open side registering with said flat face, said paste box having openings therein for the discharge of paste into the said brush holder, and slidable gates for closing said openings.

A wall papering machine comprising a cylinder adapted to hold aroll. of paper, a mandrel in said cylinder, a brush holder in the form of a casing hinged to said cylinder, a rotary brush in said holder, a paste box presenting a flat face across Which the paper is adapted to pass, said brush holder presenting an open side registering with said flat face, said paste box having openings therein for the discharge of paste into the said brush holder, and'the said open side of the brush holder. 7 i

In testimony whereof Ihave afiixed my 

